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Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, the novel Dora: A Headcase, as well as three books of short fictions—Her Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess, and Real TO Reel, and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories of Violence (Routledge). Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. Her novel The Book of Joan is forthcoming from Harper.


Lidia Yuknavitch Describes Her Four Perfect Writing Spaces

“It would not be an exaggeration to say I have spent my life swimming in the art of others.”
June 28, 2022  By Lidia Yuknavitch
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I Was Already Leaving Florida When I Arrived

Lidia Yuknavitch on Abuse, Love, and How to Gut a Largemouth Bass
November 13, 2017  By Lidia Yuknavitch
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Lidia Yuknavitch: The Time I Snuck Into Ken Kesey’s Fiction Class

On Fitting in with Misfits, from Ken Kesey to Melissa Febos
October 17, 2017  By Lidia Yuknavitch
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Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

On Living a Swimmer's Life
April 12, 2017  By Lidia Yuknavitch
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